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BWF89
July 29th, 2005, 04:15 PM
IBM is going to stop selling OS/2 late this December and stop supporting them late December 2006.
-Source (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1837763,00.asp)

So at OS2 world.com theres a petition for IBM to release as much of it's OS as it can legally into open source:
http://www.os2world.com/petition/

or you can send them an email here:
https://www.ibm.com/contact/us/en/query
WildTangent
July 29th, 2005, 08:26 PM
i signed the petition a week ago. i havent much of a chance to use OS/2, but ive tried it couple times at my moms work. i liked it. anyone know where i can buy it?

-Wild
BWF89
August 3rd, 2005, 07:56 PM
I'm bumping this.
Brunellus
August 3rd, 2005, 10:01 PM
I'm bumping this.
I hadn't heard of OS/2 in years. I remember IBM was pushing OS/2-Warp during the '90s with TV commercials with Dennis Leary. Now those were cool.
N'Jal
August 4th, 2005, 07:07 AM
i thought os/2 had died, like beos (i hate that system, and wish it would just stop being developed). Though what makes os/2 so different and unique?
npaladin2000
August 4th, 2005, 09:34 AM
i thought os/2 had died, like beos (i hate that system, and wish it would just stop being developed). Though what makes os/2 so different and unique?

It DID die....AFAIK, IBM is the only one still using it. I saw servers running it while I was working for IBM Poughkeepsie. Gave me a case of the giggles. I actually own (legal) copies of OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 CDs, but I can't get them to install on anything; not even a VMWare session.

Incidentally, BeOS development HAS in fact stopped. ;) The only OSes under development are Windows, Linux, and MacOSX. Oh and th BSDs and Solaris. SCO CLAIMS to be continuing UNIX development, but I have a little trouble believing them ;)
KiwiNZ
August 4th, 2005, 10:55 AM
I can remember seeing Os2 when it was released and thinking Wow.
Damm that seems a long time ago.
N'Jal
August 4th, 2005, 02:19 PM
No Beos is still under development see both the haiku project and the zeta project (it doesn't say it anymore but it is beos), even beos max development has restarted.

But backto my previous question, if it was a better dos than dos and a better windows than windows, what made it better?